Downloadable - IA.TSE Local 80

OFFICIAL NOTICE
This is to advise that the regular Mid-
Winter Meeting of the General Executive
Board is scheduled to be held at Sheraton
Nashville Downtown Hotel, 623 Union Street,
Nashville, Tennessee 37219 at 10:00 a.m. on
Monday, January 7, 2013, and will remain in
session through and including Friday, January
11, 2013. All business to come before
the Board must be submitted to the General
Office no later than fifteen (15) days prior to
the meeting.
Local Union representatives planning to
attend the meeting must make hotel reservations
with Sheraton Nashville Downtown
Hotel by calling 1-800-447-9825. Guest room
rate for the IATSE is $169.00, plus applicable
taxes, for both single and double occupancy.
In order to ensure that you receive the preferred
room rate established for our meeting,
you must identify your affiliation with
the IATSE.
Cut-off date: December 6, 2012
There will be an Education Seminar on
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 in the Capitol
1 Room at Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel.
More details to follow.
Get Involved!
Make A Difference!
Tticking for longer than we’ve wanted, as time after time in the past
The clock is ticking. Much like the end of a movie thriller, there are
tremendous stakes in choosing the right option, the one that saves
the lives of countless innocents. Our clock, labor’s clock, has been
four years legislators have been elected with anti-union agendas that
will go a long way toward crippling organized labor and depriving
thousands of working families of their livelihoods and their futures.
But unlike those innocents in the movies, we don’t need a fictional
hero to rescue us – we’re the ones who need to do it, to step up, to get
our own “boots on the ground” and save ourselves.
The IATSE endorsed President Obama for a second term and did so
because as challenging as it has been during these past four years, he has
pledged his support for all working people across this nation. President
Obama’s opponent, Mr. Romney, on the other hand wants nothing more
than to destroy us and the entire labor movement, and take the voice of
workers in general out of the political process. (You can see for yourself
by watching a video at: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=JepSVdOaGMI)
This election is not about party lines – this is about destructive attacks in
state after state that is supported and led by Romney – to silence the voice
of working people and pull the rug out from under us. And, this year we
are not only voting for the President. We will also be electing a number of
U.S. Senators and members of Congress, and there are a number of races
for Governor and public officials in cities and counties across the nation. We
need to support and elect those candidates who will see that every worker
in this country is protected. We also need to vote on ballot issues that have
been merely created to further decimate the rights of working people.
We’re too close to Election Day now to sit back and talk about what actions
we can take to protect the rights we have fought for, and earned, over decades.
We are facing the worst threat to organized labor in decades. But we are the
strongest when we are united, when we put ourselves on the front lines – ring
doorbells, participate in phone banks, drive voters to the polls and more. We
need to talk to our brothers and sisters on sets, at conferences, at trade shows,
and backstage, wherever members of the IA can be reached and urge them to
take part in this coming election, and urge our families, friends and neighbors
to stand shoulder to shoulder in protecting their voice as working Americans.
As important as it is to get to the polls and cast your vote on November
6th, this time voting may just not be enough. Get involved! Make a difference!
Now is the time to be “all in.”
OOur Day, Our Time
On Monday September 3rd, residents of the United States and Canada
celebrated Labor (Labour for our Canadian Brothers and Sisters)
Day. For many people this day symbolizes the end of summer and
is embraced because of the long weekend that it provides. However,
for those of us in organized labor, this day carries with it much more
significance.
One hundred and thirty years have passed since the first Labor Day observance
took place. The origins in the United States can be traced to September
5, 1882 when the Central Labor Union in New York City organized
an unpaid day off for union workers who marched around Union Square to
support the creation of the holiday.
In Canada, the roots of Labour Day can be traced to the year 1872 when
the Toronto Trades Assembly organized the first “workingman’s demonstration”
to support the elimination of a law that included the language “trade
unions were criminal conspiracies in restraint of trade”.
From those points forward, organized protests and demonstrations continued,
but it was not until 1894 that both the United States and Canadian
governments enacted legislation to make the first Monday in September of
each year a legal holiday.
Today those past struggles seem almost hard to imagine. The growth and
strength of the labor movement has been a driving force in achieving much
of what society takes for granted today. Unfortunately, much of today’s
mainstream media seems intent on focusing on the benefits that union members
have achieved and they try to paint a picture of those benefits being too
generous in today’s economic times.
What seems to get lost in this type of reporting is that those benefits and
conditions were collectively bargained for and anybody that has bargained
knows that employers never “gave” us anything. Unions had to go through
the give and take process that is a negotiation and over time achieved the
collective agreements that exist today.
In the past we primarily viewed the employer as the entity that would
attempt to attack our hard won gains. However, as President Loeb so rightly
points out, today it is the politicians that are increasingly impacting our
working lives by enacting or attempting to enact legislation to weaken
unions with the ultimate goal being to destroy unions.
In the United States there will soon be the opportunity to elect politicians
that support the needs of working people. In Canada the fight against Bill
C-377 demonstrates how you can end up on defense after an election. Accomplishing
our goals has never been easy, but that has never deterred us.
They named a day after us because we are a relevant and important part of
society. This is our time and our challenge and we are up to the task.
2 0 1 3 S u p p l i e s
The 2013 local union supplies and
membership cards will be mailed at the
end of November to those local unions that
have submitted their 3rd Quarter Report for
2012 and purchased the necessary number
of per capita stamps.
The number of per capita stamps that
must be purchased is based on the number
of members reported on the 1st and 2nd
Quarter Reports plus two times the number
of members reported on the 3rd Quarter
Report (to allow for an estimate of the
numbers that will be reported on the 4th
Quarter Report). When the 4th Quarter Report
is submitted in January 2013, an adjustment
to balance the Local’s account is
made if necessary.
Per Capita Tax Increases
As a reminder, delegates to the 66th
Quadrennial Convention voted to leave the
per capita tax rate for 2013 at the same level
as 2012. Therefore effective 1/1/13 there
will be no increase in the per capita tax paid
to the International.
4 Official Bulletin Third Quarter 2012 5